Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia

Catalonia is well known for being a bilingual region with language policies that give full support to promoting Catalan. More recently, the number of languages spoken in Catalonia has risen significantly due to immigration flows, while immigration policies encourage all citizens living in Catalonia...

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Autor: Vargas Urpi, Mireia
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palavra-chave:Public service interpreting
Intercultural mediation
Multilingualism
Bilingualism
Minoritized language
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spelling Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in CataloniaVargas Urpi, MireiaPublic service interpretingIntercultural mediationMultilingualismBilingualismMinoritized languageCatalonia is well known for being a bilingual region with language policies that give full support to promoting Catalan. More recently, the number of languages spoken in Catalonia has risen significantly due to immigration flows, while immigration policies encourage all citizens living in Catalonia to be able to communicate in Catalan with the public Administration. The same immigration policies, however, also acknowledge that interpreting (or intercultural mediation) may be necessary to facilitate immigrants’ rights to access public services during the first few years they are living in Catalonia. This article analyses the relationship between a minoritized language (Catalan), a dominant language (Spanish) and a group of recently arrived languages (Standard Chinese and other Chinese varieties) from the perspective of public service interpreting. It discusses some of the results of an empirical qualitative research which included: (a) interviews with public service interpreters and intercultural mediators working with Chinese living in Catalonia, (b) interviews with managers and coordinators in charge of interpreting or mediation services, and (c) questionnaires answered by Chinese users of public services in Catalonia. This research depicts a complex reality: it not only reflects interpreters’ and managers’ biases towards Spanish or Catalan, often motivated by their place of origin or life experience, but also the challenges when dealing with linguistic variation, i.e. the variety of languages (geolects and mutually unintelligible dialects) included under the umbrella term of Chinese.This article is part of the project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness: “The quality in translation as an element to safeguard procedural guarantees in criminal proceedings: development of resources to help court interpreters of Spanish – Romanian, Arabic, Chinese, French and English” (FFI2014-55029-R). It has also been supported by the AGAUR’s recognition of MIRAS research group (2014SGR545).De Gruyter202120212018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/46439http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-0003reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2018;(251):37-54info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/FFI2014-55029-R© De Gruyter Published version available at https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijsl.2018.2018.issue-251/ijsl-2018-0003/ijsl-2018-0003.xml http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-0003info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/464392026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia
title Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia
spellingShingle Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia
Vargas Urpi, Mireia
Public service interpreting
Intercultural mediation
Multilingualism
Bilingualism
Minoritized language
title_short Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia
title_full Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia
title_fullStr Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia
title_full_unstemmed Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia
title_sort Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism: public service interpreting for the Chinese in Catalonia
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Vargas Urpi, Mireia
author Vargas Urpi, Mireia
author_facet Vargas Urpi, Mireia
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Public service interpreting
Intercultural mediation
Multilingualism
Bilingualism
Minoritized language
topic Public service interpreting
Intercultural mediation
Multilingualism
Bilingualism
Minoritized language
description Catalonia is well known for being a bilingual region with language policies that give full support to promoting Catalan. More recently, the number of languages spoken in Catalonia has risen significantly due to immigration flows, while immigration policies encourage all citizens living in Catalonia to be able to communicate in Catalan with the public Administration. The same immigration policies, however, also acknowledge that interpreting (or intercultural mediation) may be necessary to facilitate immigrants’ rights to access public services during the first few years they are living in Catalonia. This article analyses the relationship between a minoritized language (Catalan), a dominant language (Spanish) and a group of recently arrived languages (Standard Chinese and other Chinese varieties) from the perspective of public service interpreting. It discusses some of the results of an empirical qualitative research which included: (a) interviews with public service interpreters and intercultural mediators working with Chinese living in Catalonia, (b) interviews with managers and coordinators in charge of interpreting or mediation services, and (c) questionnaires answered by Chinese users of public services in Catalonia. This research depicts a complex reality: it not only reflects interpreters’ and managers’ biases towards Spanish or Catalan, often motivated by their place of origin or life experience, but also the challenges when dealing with linguistic variation, i.e. the variety of languages (geolects and mutually unintelligible dialects) included under the umbrella term of Chinese.
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